Can't join this movie that is split and already burned on dvd

[f-zer0]

I have a movie that is already burned and it cuts off in the middle and i have to click with the remote to the second half of the movie,i tried ripping it to my computer to use hjsplit to join the files but it would not doit since i think the files are in VOB format now and it's more then just two files it's like 8 now,is there a way i can make it 2 files again and then join them with a program to where the movie doesn't cutoff in the middle and i have to click the second half to finish?

[guns1inger]

It sounds like you have two separate titles. You can use VOB2MPG to extract each back to two mpg files, then join and re-author.

Before that, you might attempt to use VOBMerge to join all of them into one large VOB, then re-author.

[marioval]

I would rip them from the DVD into separate avi files with autogk. Then instead of joining them, I would author a dvd with TDA and add both videos to the same track so they played back to back. or author with convertxtodvd, again add both videos but select the "sequential playback" option so they play back to back. Then again i'm a noob so that may be a bad option.

[guns1inger]

I would rip them from the DVD into separate avi files with autogk. Then instead of joining them, I would author a dvd with TDA and add both videos to the same track so they played back to back. or author with convertxtodvd, again add both videos but select the "sequential playback" option so they play back to back. Then again i'm a noob so that may be a bad option.

Rip from the DVD - OK
Convert to Divx with AutoGK - quality drop from needless re-encode
Re-encode to DVD compliance - second quality drop from needless re-encode

Re-encoding should be avoided whereever possible, especially if you have compliant footage to work with.